Finding Atlantis : a true story of genius, madness and an extraordinary quest for a lost world / David King.
King, David, 1970-
2005
GN751 .K56 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Finding Atlantis : a true story of genius, madness and an extraordinary quest for a lost world / David King.
Author King, David, 1970-
ISBN 1400047528
Publication Details New York : Harmony Books, c2005.
Language English
Description x, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number GN751 .K56 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 001.94
Summary The untold story of a Renaissance man on an adventurous hunt for a lost civilization-an epic quest through castles, courts, mythologies, and the spectacular world of the imagination. What do the gods of Mount Olympus have in common with the gods of Valhalla? What do these, in turn, have to do with the pharaohs of Egypt, and the glories of fabled Atlantis? In 1679, Olof Rudbeck stunned the world with the answer: they could all be traced to an ancient lost civilization that once thrived in the far north of Rudbeck's native Sweden. He would spend the last thirty years of his life hunting for the evidence. 300 years later, his story appears in English for the first time, a narrative of discovery as well as a cautionary tale about the dangerous dance of genius and madness.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-298) and index.
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Promises
Oracle of the North
Remarkable correspondences
A Cartesian witch hunt
Follow the fish!
Gazing at the fac of Thor
The quest for the golden fleece
Mountains don't dance
Twelve trumpets, four kettledrums and a bag of gold
All oars to Atlantis
Olympus stormed
Hanging by a thread
Et vos homines
On nothing
And then the snake thawed
The Elysian fields.

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